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Bucharest orders 100 Solaris electric trolleybuses

Green Car Congress

Bucharest is one of 8 cities in Romania with Solaris’ zero-emission vehicles—trolleybuses and electric buses. Since 2002, the manufacturer has already delivered almost 500 buses to the local transport operators, including more than 180 vehicles of the Trollino series and more than 100 battery-powered Urbino electric.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Today BYD employs 130,000 people in 11 factories, eight in China and one each in India, Hungary, and Romania. More Andy Grove on battery power More Is it time to buy American Express? Put simply, this little-known upstart has accelerated ahead of its much bigger rivals in the race to build an affordable electric car.

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